Welllll, this week has been a doozy.
I had a migraine from Friday-Monday, which I wrote about last week. Then, a sore throat on Sunday that turned into laryngitis and I lost my voice. THEN, Robert and I got food poisoning from a salad we shared when we went out to eat on Tuesday night. Lastly, on Friday I had a procedure done to surgically remove a mole on my face because it’s been causing me pain lately.
I was basically out of commission for an entire week, which was really hard for me. I love having a lot of different tasks to do, I need to get out of the house at least once a day, and I’d prefer to not be laying on the couch letting Juniper binge watch Season 2 of Daniel Tiger.
As far as the 30 day eating clean challenge, I had to suspend it. The nausea was so bad, it reminded me of when I was pregnant. Ugh. By mid-week I was so sick that all that appealed to me was Sierra Mist and plain potato chips. No joke!
While it wasn’t ideal to suspend the 30 day challenge for a week and go back to consuming whatever I wanted, I felt like I needed to eat what I knew wouldn’t make me feel even more nauseated and sick, if that makes sense. From my six years exploring raw foods to doing this 30 day challenge for the fourth time, at this point I’m pretty aware of what foods I can handle and what I cannot. For me, it’s moderation. I know which foods are my trigger foods (gluten and dairy), and if I have too much of either, I feel puffy and lethargic. Now that I’m feeling human again, I plan to finish out the challenge this week and continue to explore how to get my energy levels back up.
Why did I share all that with you? Because we all feel guilty from time to time about one thing or another. We feel guilty and anxious about eating the “wrong” things, not working on the things we want to work on, parenting the way we feel like we should. We feel guilty about not doing enough or being enough.
Yeah, I feel totally guilty eating junk food when my passion is promoting a healthy lifestyle. I’m not perfect, and I don’t want you to think my eating habits are flawless 100% of the time. Perfection is not ideal–it’s about moderation and persistence. Sometimes life happens and we have to just succumb to the couch and kids shows. That’s what they’re made for, right?
Maybe that resonates with you and maybe it doesn’t, but thank you for reading if you made it to the end. 🙂
happyavo 